Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Esquisse de main gauche pour Pierre et Jacques de Wiessant

Details

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)
Esquisse de main gauche pour Pierre et Jacques de Wiessant
signed 'A. Rodin' (on the side of the wrist); with the raised signature 'A. Rodin' (on the inside); inscribed and dated '© by Musée Rodin 1970 Georges Rudier Fondeur Paris' (on the back of the wrist)
bronze with brown and green patina
Height: 10 3/8 in. (26.5 cm.)
Conceived in 1885-1887; this bronze version cast in 1970 in an edition of eleven

Provenance

Musée Rodin, Paris.
Dominion Gallery, Montreal, by whom acquired from the above in July 1970.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 April 1971, lot 42 (incorrect measurements and numbering given).
Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 6 December 1983, lot 314.
Acquired at the above sale by Gustav Zumsteg.

Literature

I. Jianou & C. Goldscheider, Rodin, Paris, 1967 (the plaster version illustrated pl. 48, right).
A. Elsen & R. Jamison, Rodin's Art - The Rodin Collection of the Iris & B.G. Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, New York, 2003, no. 32 (another cast illustrated p. 143).

Lot Essay

This work will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Critique de l'Oeuvre Sculpté d'Auguste Rodin being currently prepared at the Galerie Brame & Lorenceau under the direction of Jérôme Le Blay under the archive number 2006V885B.

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